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This is Hentie van der Merwe’s second solo exhibition at NEL, following his mid-Covid (2020) Shooting Selves, featuring a series of conté drawings on paper based on selfshots, found on the internet, of people gazing at their own image, as if in mirrors.
The current exhibition is again underpinned by the same motif of selfshots, however in this new body of work Van der Merwe continues to explore the theme, and in diverse mediums; etching, watercolour – as well as ink on paper, oil on canvas, and (as with his first exhibition at Nel) conté and charcoal on paper. In these new works, of male faces …